Two Dead After N.J. Police Officers Involved in Wrong-Way Crash on Staten Island

By

Pervaiz Shallwani

and Joe Jackson

Mar 20, 2015 10:15 am ET

Wreckage of the car in which three Linden N.J. police officers and a civilian with the police department were traveling was involved in a wrong-way, head-on collision with a truck trailer on a Staten Island expressway Friday morning. The New York Police Department is investigating.

Reuters

Two people were killed and three others injured on Friday morning when a car carrying off-duty officers from a New Jersey police department went the wrong way on a Staten Island expressway, colliding head-on with a tractor trailer, authorities said.

The accident occurred around 5 a.m. on the West Shore Expressway near Arthur Kill Road, the New York Police Department said. NYPD crash investigators are on the scene investigating the crash.